THE GREAT EVENTS BY FAMOUS HISTORIANS A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY, EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS, AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS NON-SECTARIAN NON-PARTISAN NON-SECTIONAL ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE, INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY, WITH THOROUGH INDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF READING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D. ASSOCIATE EDITORS CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D. JOHN RUDD, LL.D. _With a staff of specialists_ _VOLUME XIII_ The National Alumni Copyright, 1905, BY THE NATIONAL ALUMNI [Illustration: The charge of the British at Quebec. Painting by R. Caxton Woodville.] CONTENTS VOLUME XIII PAGE _An Outline Narrative of the Great Events_, xiii CHARLES F. HORNE _John Law Promotes the Mississippi Scheme (A.D. 1716)_, 1 LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS _Prince Eugene Vanquishes the Turks_ _Siege and Battle of Belgrad (A.D. 1717)_, 16 PRINCE EUGENE OF SAVOY _Bursting of the South Sea Bubble (A.D. 1720)_, 22 LOUIS ADOLPHE THIERS _Bach Lays the Foundation of Modern Music (A.D. 1723)_, 31 HENRY TIPPER _Settlement of Georgia (A.D. 1732)_, 44 WILLIAM B. STEVENS _Rise of Methodism (A.D. 1738)_ _Preaching of the Wesleys and of Whitefield_, 57 WILLIAM E.H. LECKY _Conquests of Nadir Shah_ _Capture of Delhi (A.D. 1739)_, 72 SIR JOHN MALCOLM _First Modern Novel (A.D. 1740)_, 100 EDMUND GOSSE _Frederick the Great Seizes Silesia (A.D. 1740)_ _Maria Theresa Appeals to the Hungarians_, 108 WILLIAM SMYTH _Defeat of the Young Pretender at Culloden (A.D. 1746)_ _Last of the Stuarts_, 117 JUSTIN McCARTHY _Benjamin Franklin Experiments with Electricity (A.D. 1747)_, 130 JOHN BIGELOW AND BENJAMIN FRANKLIN _Voltaire Directs European Thought from Geneva (A.D. 1755)_, 144 JOHN MORLEY GEORGE W. KITCHIN _Braddock's Defeat (A.D. 1755)_, 163 WINTHROP SARGENT GEORGE WASHINGTON CAPTAIN DE CONTRECOEUR _Exile of the Acadian Neutrals (A.D. 1755)_, 181 WILLIAM H. WITHROW _Clive Establishes British Supremacy in India_ _Black Hole of Calcutta: Battle of Plassey (A.D. 1756)_, 185 SIR ALEXANDER J. ARBUTHNOT